My POP server stopped responding and the last two numbers were 1280-1140.
Does that mean there were 1140 open (locked/inuse/dead/) pop connections?
Any idea why this might be happening.
Bryan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Donnelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Services stalling out
> Bryan,
>
> I'll await more info! BTW, keep PerfMon running and showing that Queue
> Length to be sure it does not change when the problem occurs.
>
> Daniel Donnelly
> ________________________________________________________
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bryan Cowell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 11:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Services stalling out
>
>
> > Thanks Daniel for the quick response.
> >
> > NT Auditing is disabled.
> > Logging is disabled.
> > No other software is running on this machine. Just the typical NT
> services.
> > The Processor queue length monitor shows almost nothing.
> >
> > WHEN it dies again I'll check the pop3 header.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Daniel Donnelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 10:54 AM
> > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Services stalling out
> >
> >
> > > Bryan,
> > >
> > > When this happens and you get the response from POP3, what are the
last
> 2
> > > numbers in that line? The first represents the number of connections
> since
> > > service started and the last, the current number of connections to the
> > > service. The last is usually a small number (1-10) unless you have a
> very
> > > large number of users, or something is leaving connections open, or
> > > something is causing the connections to take significantly longer than
> > > normal to close.
> > >
> > > Do you have NT Auditing enabled? How about IMail logging (for any/all
> > > services)? You might try disabling these, to see if that has any
effect.
> > >
> > > What other programs or services are installed and/or running on this
PC?
> > Any
> > > AntiVirus software?
> > >
> > > Attached is a setting for Performance Monitor that checks the
Processor
> > > Queue Length. If this shows above 20 (average between 0-20 should be
the
> > > expected) on the graph, for more than short periods of time, then NT
is
> > not
> > > completing tasks in a normal manner and you need to find out what is
> > slowing
> > > this down. MS site may have more on this subject.
> > >
> > > I tried connecting to both POP3 and SMTP service, but all seemed
pretty
> > > normal when I did.
> > >
> > > Daniel Donnelly
> > > ________________________________________________________
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Bryan Cowell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 10:08 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Services stalling out
> > >
> > >
> > > > I too am having similar problems, Dual PII 500 256MB Tons of free
> > space,
> > > > dedicated server. The pop3/smtp services remain active and running
> but
> > > > doing a telnet to port 110 gives me my welcome message but never
makes
> > it
> > > to
> > > > the point where entering a username is possible. Since the service
is
> > > still
> > > > running, monitor and other 3rd party utils think it's still it's
> > working.
> > > > Stopping and restarting the service clears it up....for a while.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Jeff Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 7:24 PM
> > > > Subject: [IMail Forum] Services stalling out
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > Background: I am running iMail 6.05 on NT 4 sp6a. PII 450, 128
MB
> > ram,
> > > > 4+
> > > > > GB free on an 8 GB SCSI drive. The mail files themselves are
being
> > > stored
> > > > > via a SAMBA share on a Linux box via a UNC address.
> > > > >
> > > > > Often, 2 -5 times each day all the service seem to die on the mail
> > > server.
> > > > > POP3 sessions stall, Web messaging sits for 10-15 minutes trying
to
> > > login.
> > > > > Those are the services that are the most noticeable. There is
less
> > than
> > > > 10%
> > > > > CPU usage at this time and less than 60 MB of memory being used.
> > > > >
> > > > > Stopping all services in Imail administrator and restarting the
ones
> I
> > > > need
> > > > > SMTP, POP3, IMAP, IMONITOR, PSERVE, WEB, etc seems to work for a
few
> > > hours
> > > > > but I usually end up having to reboot the box.
> > > > >
> > > > > I recently doubled the Virtual Memory to 256 MB which seemed to
help
> > for
> > > > > about 2 weeks. But the problem is back.
> > > > >
> > > > > Has anyone dealt with this sort of thing before ? I could use
some
> > > > advice.
> > > > >
> > > > > Jeff Knight
> > > > > INFOWEST
> > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > >
> > > > >
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